Scientific programmer (m/f/d)

The Global Land-Ecosystem Modelling Group (LEMG) of KIT’s Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMKIFU) is located at the ‘Campus Alpin’ in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

We seek an ecosystem modeler to support code development and applications that address interactions of climate change, biodiversity loss and land-use change. This position focuses on the LPJ-GUESS ecosystem model in particular context of LandSyMM (www.landsymm.earth) to enhance its capacity to model important processes relevant within these interactions.

Your tasks include:

• Contribute to the development of a full, online coupling of LandSyMM
• Development of ideas for model applications, simulation set-up and analysis and publications
• Updates and further development of LPJ-GUESS to investigate the impact of land management on ecosystem properties
• Conduct literature searches to obtain data for model testing and evaluation
• Documentation of code development and performance
• Support other team members in questions of code development and application
• Contribute to the group’ overall activities such as project reporting, supervision and teaching
• Collaborate with LEMG team members and partners at other institutions (especially University of Edinburgh and Lund University).

This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation.